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Mr. Dudek, I think your headline is clickbate for those who'll post 1,000 comments on the most mundane stories for the sake of senseless partisan political debate. A better headline would be, "None of the shows listed are on network TV." I think it points to a larger trend about how the premium channels, AMC, PBS and Netflix are beating up the networks when it comes to dramas. I think you'd get a more intelligent discussion by asking readers to measure their preference against the President's in relation to what the networks, including Fox and NBC, are doing wrong compared to the cable networks.

Exactly what I thought when I read the story.How silly of Dudek to use the FOX comment,when it's really about network TV vs. cable and movie channels.Besides FOX Network is a totally different animal than FOX News.Now if this was about news shows than t Dudek's headline would make sense.

In terms of the post, I agree that "The Wire" is the best TV show ever. It ran at the same time as "The Sopranos" so it was largely overlooked. I don't think it was because The Sopranos was a better show, because it wasn't, but because America has long romanticized organized crime while demonizing street crime. The average person who watches The Sopranos will get lost in a fantasy. The average person who watches The Wire will be confronted with the reality of most inner cities that they see and read about everyday and that's uncomfortable. Plus The Wire was the first show that wasn't afraid to kill off or reduce the role of main characters at any point and time to focus on building new storylines and characters.